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  1. txhokie4life
    Previous owner must have had a cellphone or some other such rig taped to dash :-( It has a black tape like residue on the leather surface..... Any recommendations of how to remove this without damaging the leather dash? thanks, m
  2. txhokie4life
    You might try Lime Away -- used it on our boat for years -- M
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    I won't go into the ethics -- but you will need a cable too -- and I think that is more where the proprietary nature of what the duramatic software is located. m
  4. txhokie4life
    I would check for oil in coolant..... Also check compression on each cylinder. does your temperature gauge rise? check your water pump to make sure the pulley is still there. m
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    That was how I got into my whole Boxster S rebuild project -- bought the donor with a poor ticker, was going to electrify her. Cost for reasonable performance and unproven conversion was in excess of $42k, not counting cost of donor. Cost to rebuild the engine myself < $8k, depending on where you draw the line on the minimal amount I needed to have done -- probably could have been under $6k. I can buy a lot of gas for $30k+ mike
  6. txhokie4life
    do what is the value of a 97 with areplaced engine .... edmunds says 10.3k .... kbb 14.1k.... but those both assume the car is original.... how much do you take off for a rebuilt or replaced with used engine..... replaced engine is 5k+2k labor.... that puts this one at 13k..... seems way high to me...... thoughts????
  7. txhokie4life
    what issues do I have to be concerned with swapping a 987 2.7L into an 986??? a dme compatibility? also if I change the dme I've heard there is a problem with the alarm controller ... is this over rideable via duramatic? or dealer only is it reasonable to replace alarm unit ... what comppnent runs that? thx m
  8. txhokie4life
    I had this problem too...airbag light on...ended costing me £350 (approx $700) to replace the airbag ECU...fixed it! So is this stored in flash memory somewhere? Is there anyway to clear that memory rather than replace the Airbag control unit? My concern here is that if that light is on -- will it disable all the airbags? thanks, Mike
  9. txhokie4life
    Glad it was relatively benign..... Happy Boxstering.... Mike
  10. txhokie4life
    My first time tearing anything down -- I'm the lackey is this duo -- Danny (in green) had rebuilt six 911 air cooled engines -- this is his first M96. He took a lot of pictures, I bought a CD of the shop manuals from a guy on this board. Watched all the www.986fix.com videos. Bought some of the special tools, Danny made the others. I engineered what we would do when we found what -- found/ordered all the parts. Now I mostly clean any parts we are redoing and torque a few bolts :-) But my eyes and ears are wide open! Picking anything up I can incase I decide to do this again some time. Mike
  11. txhokie4life
    What is the cause of your DOA?
  12. txhokie4life
    Here is my ongoing photo essay of my project to resurrect a 2000 Boxster S. I purchased "Star" over the summer with the initial plan to turn it electric. But the electrification was going to be way too expensive -- so I turned to rebuilding the engine. We hope to have it back on the road in the next few weeks..... If you like engine tear downs and rebuilds -- I hope you find these pictures interesting. Also includes photos of the improved IMS from LnEngineering. I have to thank Jeff at Sunset for the tons of discounted parts and ease of ordering. A Star in the Making enjoy, Mike
  13. txhokie4life
    I'm just guessing here: How is you battery? How is the battery cable connections? If you have a low battery, or a poor connection then I could see something like this. One of the experts here should be able to help better. M
  14. txhokie4life
    Add Jeff in Parts to the list -- I bought $3000 worth of stuff from them!
  15. txhokie4life
    Did the water pump looks like this? Oddly -- the impeller spins freely now -- so I'm not sure how the shaft sheared off? m Wow....that's pretty catastrophic. And no, mine doesn't look like that. The impeller broke off of the shaft and simply sat in the housing doing nothing while the shaft turned. The pulley and belt stayed intact. I bought the car knowing it had overheated. I managed to get the engine to run, but there was a loud rattle coming from the front of the engine. Putting two and two together (overheat and rattle), I decided to check out the water pump. Removed the pump to find the broken impeller. When removing the pump, the pulley had significant wobble to it. The wobble of the shaft was obviously due to the bearing. I'm guessing that the bearing wore out over time allowing the belt to pull the pulley/shaft off center, and after enough wear, allowed the impeller to begin hitting the water pump housing which in turned caused it to finally break off of the shaft. Make sure your coolant and oil did not mix -- and if not -- replace the waterpump - -and you should be good to go. Mine was completely mis-daignossed -- and I bought it assuming something even worse!! So I was glad it was only the water pump. Still a complete rebuild due to the water and coolant -- and corrosion potential, that and we had already tore it down looking for a cracked cylinder liner. Mike
  16. txhokie4life
    Has anyone run without the drive belt? Does the dash actually light up? Just want to make sure there is no false sense of security. mike
  17. txhokie4life
    Well this would be just speculation, but it is possible that until the water temp gets high enough, there is no flow of coolant, but once it does get high enough (and maybe the sensor is reading low) -- you are getting some movement of coolant which is spinning the impeller of the water pump -- i.e. it's working backwards..... maybe the impeller bearings are going and that is the source of the squeal -- the hissing sound could be steam cooking off from your coolant because it is overheating..... Is the pulley on the water pump turning freely? you don't want to run your car too long in this condition...... The first picture (sheared water pump shaft) led to the second picture (freeze plug blowing) which led to the third and a complete engine rebuild. The waterpump can be had for ~$200 (or less) -- and might be a DIY..... depending on your abilities. Here is a link to pictures from my project A Star in the making mike
  18. txhokie4life
    Did the water pump looks like this? Oddly -- the impeller spins freely now -- so I'm not sure how the shaft sheared off? m
  19. txhokie4life
    I have a 2000 S whose water pump shaft sheared off. Hopefully the white smoke was boiling over your coolant and not coming from exhaust. Have them check that the coolant did not mix with the oil. If so -- bad news -- If there is mixture --- then time for a new engine if it is under warranty. Mike
  20. txhokie4life
    If you happen to get an email return (which would be surprising to me) -- the answer would undoubtably be no. Better to ask for an upgrade to a comparable larger bore engine that is still in production. Less integration problems - -and more likely to happen. mike
  21. txhokie4life
    I've got about $4200 into parts at this point. But that includes brake pads, clutch, all hoses, belts, fluids, etc. So that includes everything but the interior work. mike
  22. txhokie4life
    That is a long story :-) Basically we tore the engine down to the bearings....... In the process we found the liners to be in perfect condition, took us a while to notice the missing plugs in the heads, and worked our way back to figure out why. At more than hands length -- you really couldn't tell the pully was sheared off the water pump -- so it didn't stick out as an issue. But upon closer inspection it became obvious. Now why it sheared off -- who knows -- bad bearing, weak shaft, both? I also have a local mechanic I am working with who's rates are very reasonable. I'm not sure how many hours we've got into it so far ~50 to tear down and diagnose, additional ~$500 at the machine shop for valve job and polishing. I paid ~$3000 in parts at sunsetporsche, found a few things on Ebay -- but I'm doing a lot more than just addressing the water pump failure. I also paid $911 to LnEngineering for their upgraded IMS. Next week the process is to put it back together starts. Maybe another 50 hours? He asked me to join him and watch and learn next week -- gotta figure out how to make time from work to do that -- once in a lifetime opportunity! m
  23. txhokie4life
    Where is the best place to look? m
  24. txhokie4life
    What may have happened is that your engine has overheated due to the water pump failure. Then either one of the head gaskets blew -- or one of the freeze plugs in your cylinder heads blew. Either way water and oil end up mixing. This happened to a '00 Boxster S that I bought that had been diagnosed as a cracked cylinder liner. If water and oil mixed -- your likely to have a rebuild on your hands -- If done right ~$1.5k+ in parts plus labor. m
  25. txhokie4life
    Long story short -- the problem turned out to be a sheared water pump shaft which allowed the engine to overheat causing the freeze plug in one of the cylinder heads to blow -- which caused the coolant to mix with the oil. So I didn't require the new liners. I did get the LnEngineering IMS upgrade. Replacing just about everything else that isn't nailed down, from bearings, to all timing chains, hoses, belts, AOS, seals, rings, clutch, brake pads, and battery. Everything stock except for brake pads. Will be putting it all back together starting next week. Mike
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